TCP does Roman History: Cassius Dio on Augustus
Nov 05, 2024•19 min•Season 6Ep. 14
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Episode description
First up in this week's episodes, ‘the big Daddy of them all’ - Augustus - gets the Dio treatment in Books 53-56 and, as Dr Christopher Burden-Strevens (University of Kent) tells us, it makes for fantastic reading!
“It’s a sham...but Dio thinks it’s essential” - listen now to find out what this is referring to!
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